Using *nix lsof Command To Your Advantage

This is an article on Using *nix lsof Command To Your Advantage in Unix.

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lsof or LiS Open Files is a very powerful command available on most of Unix-like systems, it lists all open files (in *nix everything is a file, drives, sockets, inodes, etc.). The listing can filtered using various parameters like process id, owner of the process, etc. In this article we'll discuss using example to use lsof command in various ways which you might useful according to your needs.